Combined safety-pin and clasp.



C. FISHER.

. COMBINED SAFETY PIN AND CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED FEB12| 1915.

Patented. J11 25, 1916.

LJQQJSISQ 11v VEN TOR. Carl Elsie)" I VITNESSES CARL FISHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED SAFETY-PIN AND CLASP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL FISHER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at New York, in the county of the Bronx and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Safety-Pin and Clasp, of which the following is a specification.

his invention relates to a combined safety-pin and clasp and has as its principal object to provide a device of this character simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture; a further object of my invention is to provide a device adapted to be used for a great number of purposes which cannot all be obtained by the use of a safetypin or aclasp, respectlvely, but only with a combination of the two as hereinafter set forth. 7

Reference will now be had to the drawing accompanying this application and-formin% part of it, in which:

igure 1 is a side elevational view of my device with an insert of the cross section of a part of the same. Figs. 2, 3 and 4 show various uses of my device in elevation, hidden parts being indicated by dotted lines.

As shown in the drawing, my device consists of one piece of resilient wire substantially of the entire length, except at its hooked end 6, where it gradually tapers to a sharp point 7. From the hooked end 6 it proceeds in a straight line 8,being doubled at 9 and continued in a parabolic line 10, substantially in plan with the straight part 8, and ending in a spiral part 11, being in contact with and pressing against the straight part 8. On accountof the resilienc of the material of which the device is ma e, the spiral part 11 Specification of Letters Patent.

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same section throughout its Patented ma 25, rate.

' Application filed February 2, 1915. Serial No. 5,674.

may be pulled away from the straight part 8 in any direction and will tend to return into the original position, shown in Fig, l, as soon as released and to hold fast anything inserted between the straight part 8 and the spiral part 11.

Fig. 2 shows my device asused for the suspension of a watch on the outside of a piece of garment, Fig. 3 shows it as applied to hold a button from the inside of a piece of garment, by being passed through the eyelet of the button and Fig. 4 shows its application as a tie-clasp. The figures referred to are so clear and obvious that it is not necessary further todescribe them. It must, however, be understood, that they illustrate only a few preferred forms of the use of my device and by no means all of its s. Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

A. combined safety-pin and clasp comprising a single strand, of resilient wire forming a straight bar, arentrantly turned hook having a sharp point at one end, a parabolically curved element joined by a semi-circular-bend at the other end of said her and a reentrantly curved open loop formed at the other end of said parabolic element, said loop being normally in contact with said straight bar near its center at .the' sides thereof, the entire structure being substantially in the same plane. In testimony whereof, I have my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- 1 CARL FISHER.

Witnesses:

' A. BROMBERG,

ALADAR HAmURenR.

hereunto set 

